(Subscription required) AI hallucinations reveal the resilience and limits of our adversarial process. Institutional skepticism eventually catches fake cases, but only when lawyers do their professional duties.

Northern California prosecutors used artificial intelligence to write a criminal court filing that contained references to nonexistent legal cases and precedents, Nevada County District Attorney Jesse Wilson said in a statement.

(Subscription required) The case was the first enforcement action under Connecticut's Student Data Privacy Law and California's K-12 Pupil Online Personal Information Protection Act. Along with New York, all three states' student privacy laws require online educational providers to have adequate protections and security measures for education data.

(Subscription required) The overall pass rate on California's July 2025 bar exam inched slightly higher year-over-year to 54.8%, according to statistics released Friday by the state bar. Just over 4,000 people passed the test, which reverted to a National Conference of Bar Examiners-written format after the February exam, designed to be taken online, melted down amid widespread technical and planning errors.